Christmas for us actually started over Thanksgiving weekend. We spent Thanksgiving with my family and celebrated Christmas the next day. We were given tons of great stuff and someone went above and beyond by giving us the most awesome stroller that I have been wanting. I don't have a picture with the extra toddler seat attached to it, but it is truly the most awesome triple stroller ever and I'm not sure when we ever would have been able to buy it for ourselves.
We had planned to take the kids to see Santa at the mall, but after the fiasco of taking them to see Santa at our church Christmas party we decided not to bother with the mall.
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| Jacob terrified of Santa |
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| The twins not so happy (can't tell in the picture, but Jeremy is crying) |
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| See me pushing Jacob into the picture? |
I took a picture of the new ornaments for our tree this year. Well - looks like I missed mine and Justin's, but I got each of the boys' as well as Jacob's first Christmas ornament. Since Jacob wasn't supposed to be here for Christmas 2008 we never had a chance to get him a special ornament for that year. The ones I got for the twins this year could have any year put on them and not just the current year so all the boys have the same ornament as their first ornament now.
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| Jacob was so excited when he saw this Elmo ornament |
Christmas Eve was spent at Justin's grandparents' house. We got the boys all ready for bed up there so that they would just fall asleep on the way home and we carried them in and put them in bed. Luckily they slept all night long (we had our doubts it would work). Then "Santa" got to work. We asked him to keep things low key and we're glad he listened.
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| Everything all ready for Christmas morning |
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| Santa brought Jacob a Thomas set |
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| The twins got a joint gift from Santa since they are little and he could get away with it |
Not going to lie. Christmas morning was not that fun here.
We knew that the babies wouldn't have a clue what was going on, but had hoped that Jacob would. We had been counting down with our advent calendar and telling him about how Santa was coming, but he really just doesn't understand a lot of things.
Jacob loved to see what Santa brought him, but he couldn't stand the babies trying to touch it.
And the babies didn't care about what Santa brought them - they just wanted to play with Jacob's Thomas train set.
And none of the kids cared about their stockings or any other presents. It was hard to juggle doing Christmas with feeding all the kids since none of them wanted to eat at the same time.
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| Jacob did love the play kitchen that Gramma Jan and Grampa Mark got for the boys |
Other random pictures of the babies from the morning
1 comments:
Awesome stroller! Looks like it is already well loved and very much needed.
I'm sure that future Christmas's will improve. But it will be a constant battle to get them to leave brother's things alone. We have that problem here too and probably always will (and it's even worse with the almost 12 year old!)
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